Scientists create “Swiss army knife” for electron beams

Pocket accelerator combines four functions in one device

LEAPS: devising a new era of accelerator-based photon science in Europe

The Directors of the European Synchrotron and FEL user facilities have decided to establish a strategic partnership – the League of European Accelerator based-Photon Sources (LEAPS)– which aims for an unprecedented level of cooperation and development and outreach to academic and industrial users as well as to the general public.

ICFA Mini-Workshop on Impedances and Beam Instabilities in Particle Accelerators